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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* busctl prints errors to stdout:
8 busctl tree org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1
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f38afcd0 10External:
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f38afcd0 12* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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14* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
15
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16Janitorial Clean-ups:
17
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18* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
19
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20* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
21 semantics, like we do for device.c now
22
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23Features:
24
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25* add "throttling" to sd-event event sources: optionally, when we wake up too
26 often for one, let's turn it off entirely for a while. Use that for the
27 /proc/self/mountinfo logic.
28
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29* move our systemd-user PAM snippet to /usr/, which PAM appears to support
30 these days
31
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32* nspawn: support time namespaces
33
34* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
35
36* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
37
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38* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
39 when it exits
40
41* make "systemd-dissect" an official supported tool, i.e. move to /usr/bin/ and
42 provide man page. Given that we now have a tool that can generate images like
43 this, it's useful to have one that can dump contents of them, too.
44
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45* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
46 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, firstboot, tmpfiles,
47 sysusers, systemctl, repart, journalctl, coredumpctl.
48
49* per-service credential system. Specifically: add LoadCredential= (for loading
50 cred from file), AcquireCredential= (for asking user for cred, via
51 ask-password), PassCredential= (for passing on credential systemd itself
52 got). Then, place credentials in a per-service, immutable ramfs instance (so
53 that it cannot be swapped out), destroy after use. Also pass via keyring
54 (with graceful fallback to cover for containers). Define CredentialPath= for
55 defining subdir of /run/credentials/ where to place it. Set $CREDENTIAL_PATH
56 env var for services to the result. Also pass via fd passing (optionally).
57
58* homed: add native recovery key support. use 48 lowercase modhex characters
59 (192bit), show qr code of it, include pattern expression in user record.
60
61* homed: introduce "degraded" state for home directories that weren't cleanly
62 unmounted (use xattr we add and remove on the loop back file)
63
64* homed: during login resize fs automatically towards size goal. Specifically,
65 resize to diskSize if possible, but leave a certain amount (configured by a
66 new value diskLeaveFreeSize) of space free on the backing fs.
67
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68* homed: permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
69 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
70 signature
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72* homed: add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
73 and insert a local signature instead.
74
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75* homed: as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
76 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
77 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
78 though: if noone is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
79 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
80
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81* homed: support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
82
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83* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
84 exists and responds.
85
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86* homed: maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
87 easily?
88
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89* when systemd-nspawn and suchlike dissect an OS image, and there are multiple
90 root partitions, do an strverscmp() on the partition label and boot
91 first. That is inspired how sd-boot figures out which kernel to boot, and
92 thus allows defining OS images which can be A/B updated and we default to the
93 newest version automatically, both in nspawn and in sd-boot
94
97cd52c1 95* cryptsetup/homed: also support FIDO2 HMAC password logic for unlocking
70e9d9a5 96 devices. (see: https://github.com/mjec/fido2-hmac-secret)
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98* systemd-gpt-auto should probably set x-systemd.growfs on the mounts it
99 creates
100
86b52a39 101* homed/userdb: distinguish passwords and recovery keys in the records, since
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102 we probably want to use different PBKDF algorithms/settings for them:
103 passwords have low entropy but recovery keys should have good entropy key
104 hence we can make them quicker to work.
105
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106* bootctl:
107 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
108 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
109 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
110
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111* by default, in systemd --user service bump the OOMAdjust to 100, as privs
112 allow so that systemd survives
113
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114* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
115 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
116
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117* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
118 systemd-makefs.service instead.
119
91fc013f 120* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 121 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 122
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123* unify on openssl:
124 - port sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific() over from khash
125 - port resolved over from libgcrypt (DNSSEC code)
126 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
127 - port importd over from libgcrypt
128 - when that's done: kill khash.c
129 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
130
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131* kill zenata, all hail weblate?
132
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133* when we resize disks (homed?) always round up to 4K sectors, not 512K
134
135* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
136 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
137
138* hook up the TPM to /etc/crypttab, with a new option that is similar to the
139 new PKCS#11 option in crypttab, and allows unlocking a LUKS volume via a key
140 unsealed from the TPM. Optionally, if TPM is not available fall back to
141 TPM-less mode, and set up linear DM mapping instead (inspired by kpartx), so
142 that the device paths stay the same, regardless if crypto is used or not.
143
492f91d8 144* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
86b52a39 145 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
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146 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
147 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
148
86b52a39 149* systemd-repart: optionally, allow specifying a path to initialize new
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150 partitions from, i.e. an fs image file or a source device node. This would
151 then turn systemd-repart into a simple installer: with a few .repart files
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152 you could replicate the host system on another device. a full installer would
153 then be: "systemd-repart /dev/sda && bootctl install /dev/sda &&
154 systemd-firstboot --image= …"
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156* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
157 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
158 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
159 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
160 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
161 automatically.
162
163* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
164 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
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166* systemd-repart: allow running mkfs before making partitions pop up +
167 encryption via LUKS to allow booting into an empty root with only /usr mounted in
168
169* systemd-repart: allow managing the gpt read-only partition flag + auto-mount flag
170
171* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
172 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
173
174* systemd-repart: add specifier expansion, add especifier that refers to root
175 device node of current system, /usr device node, and matching verity, so that
176 an installer can be made a "copy" installer of the booted OS
177
2a4be3c5 178* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
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179 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
180
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181* systemd-repart: allow config of partition uuid
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183* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
184 realname substr searches in varlink API
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186* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
187
2a4be3c5 188* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 189
f1eb0ccd 190* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 191
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192* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
193 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
194 initrd had set.
195
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196* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
197 it fo reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
198 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
199 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
200 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
201 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
202
203* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
204 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
205 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
206
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207* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
208 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
209 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
210 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
211 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
212 source.
213
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214* figure out automatic partition discovery when combining writable root dir
215 with immutable /usr
216
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217* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
218 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
219 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
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221* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
222
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223* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
224 the hibernation
225
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226* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
227 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
228 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
229 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
230 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
231 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
232 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
233 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
234 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
235 hibernation mode. (see
236 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
237 section 10.2.2.8 and
238 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
239 at the end).
240
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241* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
242 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
243 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
244 output for them.
245
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246* systemd-firstboot: teach it dissector magic, so that you can point it to some
247 disk image and it will just set everything in it all behind the scenes.
248
249* systemd-firstboot: add --force mode that replaces existing configuration.
250
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251* We should probably replace /var/log/README, /etc/rc.d/README with symlinks
252 that are linked to these places instead of copied. After all they are
253 constant vendor data.
254
c6526b8d 255* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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257* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
258 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
259
260* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
261 fallback in "machinectl shell"
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263* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
264 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
265 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
266
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267* homed:
268 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
269 - hook up machined/nspawn users with a varlink user query interface
270 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
271 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
272 - resize on login?
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273 - shrink fs on logout?
274 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
275 - create on activate?
276 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
277 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
278 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
279 systemd --user is shut down.
280 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
281 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk images (think: time machine)
86b52a39 282 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
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283 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
284 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
285 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
286 - description field for groups
287 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
288 - reuse pwquality magic in firstboot
289 - query password from kernel keyring first
290 - update even if record is "absent"
291 - add a "access mode" + "fstype" field to the "status" section of json identity records reflecting the actually used access mode and fstype, even on non-luks backends
292 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
293 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
294 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
295 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
296 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
297
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298* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
299 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
300 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
301 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
302 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
303 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
304 exec().
305
306* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
307
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308* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
309 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
310
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311* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
312
313* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
314 gnome-bluetooth and friends
315
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316* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
317 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
318 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
319 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
320 cgroup.
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322* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
323 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
324 root.
325
326* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
327 is issued.
328
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329* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
330
331* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
332
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333* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
334 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
335 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 336
d238709c 337* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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338 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
339 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
340
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341* add a concept for automatically loading per-unit secrets off disk and
342 inserting them into the kernel keyring. Maybe SecretsDirectory= similar to
343 ConfigurationDirectory=.
344
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345* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
346
d3584ec4 347* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
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349* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
350 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
351
06898123 352* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 353 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 354 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
06898123 355
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356* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
357
358* support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
359 patching around
360
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361* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
362 log.c and sd-journal-send
363
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364* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
365
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366* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
367
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368* sd-boot: automatically load EFI modules from some drop-in dir, so that people
369 can add in file system drivers and such
370
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371* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
372 non-zero "tries done" count
373
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374* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
375 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
376 it should skip the variant type string though.
377
378* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
379 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
380 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
381 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
382 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
383 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
384 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
385 CODE_FILE.
386
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387* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
388 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
389 some explanatory text online.
390
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391* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
392
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393* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
394 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
395 the slices, and the units attached to them.
396
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397* the a-posteriori stopping of units bound to units that disappeared logic
398 should be reworked: there should be a queue of units, and we should only
bc130b68 399 enqueue stop jobs from a defer event that processes queue instead of
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400 right-away when we find a unit that is bound to one that doesn't exist
401 anymore. (similar to how the stop-unneeded queue has been reworked the same
402 way)
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404* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
405 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
406 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
407
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408* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
409 original defaults before calling parse_config()
410
72d711ef 411* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
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413* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
414 Specifically:
415
416 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
417 properly)
e83419d0 418 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 419 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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421* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
422 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
423
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424* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
425 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
426 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
427 files and suchlike we operate on.
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429* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
430
431* add attach --enable and attach --now (for attach+enable+start)
432
433* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
434 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
435
5da19043 436* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
5238e957 437 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
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438 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
439 numbers.
440
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441* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
442 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
443 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
444 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
445 unlinked from any dir.
446
bd1b3f75 447* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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449* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
450
451* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
452
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453* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
454 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
455 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
456 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
457 should reflink the image file itself.
458
459 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
460 specific paths only like this.
461
53c70a27 462* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 463 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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464 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
465 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
466 images, for example fallback to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
467
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468* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
469
470* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
471
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472* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
473 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
474
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475* teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
476 project quota
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478* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
479 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
480 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
481 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
482 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
483 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
484 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
485 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
486
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487* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
488 for root, but only then.
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490* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
491
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492* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
493 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
494
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495* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
496 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
497
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498* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
499 host-side interface pointing to the container.
500
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501* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
502 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
503 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
504 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
505 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
506
cb77e122 507* taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
c6009ff0 508
899feb72 509* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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511* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
512 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
513 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
514
5f7ecd61 515* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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517* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
518 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
519
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520* blog about fd store and restartable services
521
522* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
523
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524* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
525 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
526
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527* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
528 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
529 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
530 ID is available.
531
532* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
533 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
534 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
535
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536* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
537 parameters
538
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539* maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
540 the quota of a the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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541 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
542 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
543 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
544 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
545 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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547* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
548 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
549
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550* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
551 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
552 wait to retrieve their exit data.
553
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554* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
555 about it in the resource log message
556
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557* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
558 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
559
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560* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
561 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
562 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
563
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565 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
566
567 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
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570 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
571 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
572 logging.
573
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574* hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
575 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
576 "convertible" form factor
577
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578* Maybe add PrivatePIDs= as new unit setting, and do minimal PID namespacing
579 after all. Be strict however, only support the equivalent of nspawn's
580 --as-pid2 switch, and sanely proxy sd_notify() messages dropping stuff such
581 as MAINPID.
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583* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
584 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
585 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
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587* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
588 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
589
590* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
591 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
592 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
593 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
594 natural habitat.
595
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596* gpt-auto logic: related to the above, maybe support a "secondary" root
597 partition, that is mounted to / and is writable, and where the actual root's
598 /usr is mounted into.
599
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600* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
601
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602* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
603
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604* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
605 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
606 relative to the configured default value.
607
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608* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
609
610* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
611
04397464 612* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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614* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
615
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616* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
617
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618* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
619
04397464 620* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 621
04397464 622* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 623
04397464 624* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 625
8ce9b83a 626* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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628* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
629 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
630 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
631
e40a326c 632* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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634* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
635
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636* mount: automatically search for "main" partition of an image has multiple
637 partitions
638
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639* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
640 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
641 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
642 mapping to work.
643
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644* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
645
646* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
647
648* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
649
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650* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
651 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
652
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653* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
654 reload the unit file anyway
655
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656* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
657 from the SIGBUS handler
658
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659* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
660
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661* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
662 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
663
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664* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
665
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666* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
667 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
668
f9bf1b8f 669* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 670 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 671 specifications.
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673* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
674
5ebbb45b 675* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
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677* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
678
a2088fd0 679* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 680 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
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681 prefixed with /sys generally special.
682 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
683
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684* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
685
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686* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
687
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688* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
689 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
690 state.
691 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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693* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
694 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
695 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
696 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
697 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
698
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699* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
700 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
701
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702* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
703
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704* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
705 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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707* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
708 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
709 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
710 do, for example)
711
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712* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
713 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
714
e031c227 715* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
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716 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
717
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718* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
719
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720* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
721 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
722 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
723 returning from the "systemctl stop".
724
b568ef14 725* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
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727* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
728
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729* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
730 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
731
25e773ee 732* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 733
279f0366 734* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 735
5238e957 736* systemctl edit: use equivalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
b42de08a 737 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 738
720652b3 739* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 740
720652b3 741* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
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743* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
744
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745* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
746 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
747
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9d6db739 749 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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751 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 752 - avahi compat
9d6db739 753 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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754 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
755 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
756 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 757 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 758 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 759
e25b5a8d 760* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
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762* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
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764* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
765
a01647e5 766* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 767 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
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769* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
770
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771* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
772
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773* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
774
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775* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
776 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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779
6a3f892a 780* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 781 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 782 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
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784* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
785 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
786 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 787
f9bf1b8f 788* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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790* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
791 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
792 for ReusePort=
793
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794* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
795 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
796 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
797 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
798 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
799 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
800
f38afcd0 801* cgroups:
f38afcd0 802 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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803 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
804 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
805 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
806 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
807 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 808
f38afcd0 809* transient units:
f38afcd0 810 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
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812* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
813
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814* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
815
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816* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
817
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818* rfkill,backlight: we probably should run the load tools inside of the udev rules so that the state is properly initialized by the time other software sees it
819
7f79cd71 820* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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822* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
823 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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825
04397464 826* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
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828* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
829
830* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
831
6bb648a1 832* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 833 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 834 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
7212c608 835 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
57f2a947 836 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
f38afcd0 837 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 838 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
ab9716c2 839 - longer term: priority inheritance
df98a87b 840 - dbus spec updates:
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842 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 843 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 844 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
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846* sd-event
12179984 847 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 848 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
e25b5a8d 849 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
eb01ba5d 850
69af4503 851* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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853* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
854 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
855
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856* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
857
858* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
859
fff87a35 860* test/:
20d52ab6 861 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 862
b5c03638 863* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 864 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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865 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
866 destination.
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868* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
869 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
870
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871* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
872
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873* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
874 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
875 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
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877* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
878 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
879 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
880 is installed.
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882* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
883 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
884 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
885 that automatically.
886
e5ec62c5 887* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 888
ccddd104 889* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
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891* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
892
356ce991 893* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 894
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897 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 898 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 899* bootctl
631427d6 900 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 901
c0fe5db5 902* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 903
b44be3ec 904* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 905
b44be3ec 906* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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909 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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910 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
911 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
912 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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914 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
915 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
916 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
917 needs setuid().
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919 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
920 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
921 complete.
922 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
923 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
924 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
279f0366 925 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
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927 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
928 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
929 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
930 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
931 relogins
77b19caf 932 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
e673ad04 933
b44be3ec 934* journal:
57f2a947 935 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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937 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
938 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 939 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 940 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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941 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
942 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
943 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 944 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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945 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
946 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 947 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
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948 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
949 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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950 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
951 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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952 - journal-send.c, log.c: when the log socket is clogged, and we drop, count this and write a message about this when it gets unclogged again.
953 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
954 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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955 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
956 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
957 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
958 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 959 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 960 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 961 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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962 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
963 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
964 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
965 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
966 to syslog when it works again.
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967 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
968 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
969 journals in.
970 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
971 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
972 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
973 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
974 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 975 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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976 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
977 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
978 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
979 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
980 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
981 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
982 operation.
983 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
984 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
985 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
986 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 987 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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988 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
989 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
990 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
991 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
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994 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
995 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
996 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
997
b44be3ec 998* document:
8b8f2591 999 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1000 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1001 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1002 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1003 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1004 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1005 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1006 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1007 - man: add more examples to man pages
1008 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1009 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1011* systemctl:
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1012 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1013 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1014 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1015 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1016 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1017 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1018 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1019 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1020 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1021 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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1023* unit install:
1024 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1025 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
8b04b925 1026
b44be3ec 1027* timer units:
b44be3ec 1028 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
b44be3ec 1029 o DST changes
90e071d1 1030 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 1031
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1032* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1033
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1034* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1035
b44be3ec 1036* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 1037
f59d1da8 1038* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
dcfc4b2e 1039
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1040* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1041
d28315e4 1042* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 1043
b44be3ec 1044* nspawn:
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1045 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1046 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1047 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1048 from the kernel's logs.
1049 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1050 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1051 interface be missing
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1052 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1053 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1054 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1055 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1056 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1057 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1058 PID 1...
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1059 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1060 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1061
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1062* dissect
1063 - refuse mounting over a mount point
1064 - automatically discover .roothash files in dissect, similarly to nspawn
1065
e25b5a8d 1066* machined:
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1067 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1068 removed or added to an existing machine
1069 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1070 difference host, via ssh
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1071 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1072 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1073 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1074 question
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1075 - "machinectl history"
1076 - "machinectl diff"
1077 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1078 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1079
b44be3ec 1080* cryptsetup:
b44be3ec 1081 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
5f1dac6b 1082 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 1083
424a19f8 1084* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 1085 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
424a19f8 1086
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1087* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1088
68f16003 1089* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
0790b9fe 1090
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1091* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1092
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1093* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1094
abd55b16 1095* udev:
abd55b16 1096 - move to LGPL
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1097 - kill scsi_id
1098 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1099 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1100
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1101* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1102
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1103* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1104
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1105* coredump:
1106 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1107 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
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1108
1109* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1110
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1111* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1112 needs to be auto-respawned?
1113
f38afcd0 1114* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1115 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1116 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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1117 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1118 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1119 calls follow symlinks.
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1121* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1122
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1123* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1124 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1125 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1126
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1127* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1128 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1129
71092d70 1130* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 1131
68c7d001 1132* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 1133 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
68c7d001 1134 - enabling dbus services
7a2a0b90 1135 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 1136 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 1137 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 1138 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 1139 - auto-restart
e707c494 1140 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 1141 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 1142 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 1143 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 1144 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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1145 - calendar time events
1146 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
1147 - how to create your own target
1148 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
1149 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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1151* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1152
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1153* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1154
e25b5a8d 1155* pid1:
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1156 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1157 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1158 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1159 that are not supported...
1160 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1161 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1162 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1163 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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1164 - move PAM code into its own binary
1165 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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1166 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1167 - Support --test based on current system state
1168 - If we show an error about a unit (such as not showing up) and it has no Description string, then show a description string generated form the reverse of unit_name_mangle().
1169 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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1170 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1171 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1172 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1173 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1174 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1175 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1176 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1177 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1178
1179* unit files:
1180 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1181 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1182 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1183 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1184 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1185 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1186 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1187 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
e25b5a8d 1188 - introduce Type=pid-file
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1189 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
1190 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
e25b5a8d 1191 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
e5171296 1192 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
e25b5a8d 1193
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1194* udev-link-config:
1195 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1196 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1197 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1198
88e4d1d7 1199* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1200 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1201 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1202
0a4b9a07 1203* networkd:
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1204 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1205 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1206 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1207 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1208 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1209 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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1210 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1211 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1212 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1213 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1214 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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1215 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1216 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1217 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1218 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1219 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1220 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1221 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
e25b5a8d 1222 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1223
ac976532 1224* dhcp:
424a8732 1225 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1226
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1227* dhcp6:
1228 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1229 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1230 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1231 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1232 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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1233 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1234 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1235 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1236 or interface down
1237 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1238 this behavior
4a77c53d 1239 - RouteTable= ?
37d8b536 1240
2f8cd170 1241External:
74fe1fe3 1242
cc9784c6 1243* dbus:
3377af3e 1244 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 1245 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
cc9784c6 1246
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1247* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1248
71092d70 1249* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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1251* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
1252
d2bbca68 1253* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
8973790e 1254
8973790e 1255* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 1256
4641a16b 1257* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
19aa7c4f 1258
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1259* register catalog database signature as file magic
1260
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1261* zsh shell completion:
1262 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 1263 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
1cf3c30c 1264
90137b62 1265* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
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1266* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
1267 after being started.
2c12a402 1268
129126f3 1269Regularly:
874aa2cc 1270
129126f3 1271* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 1272
129126f3 1273* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
5b6319dc 1274
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1275* pahole
1276
d28315e4 1277* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 1278
4db17f29 1279* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 1280
d05c556b 1281* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
62353f69 1282String is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment